RE: Fwd: problems with RDF datatyping

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Graham Klyne [mailto:GK@NineByNine.org]
> Sent: 17 January, 2003 14:30
> To: Brian McBride
> Cc: rdf Core; pat hayes
> Subject: Re: Fwd: problems with RDF datatyping
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:32 AM 1/17/03 +0000, Brian McBride wrote:
> 
> > From PFPS:
> >
> >>In trying to make the OWL semantics correspond to the RDF 
> semantics I came
> >>up with the following problems in RDF datatyping:
> >>
> >>1/ A datatype is an element of IR, because the RDF MT says 
> that datatypes are
> >>denoted by URI references.  However, rdf:XMLLiteral is said to be a
> >>datatype, but rdf:XMLLiteral is a URI reference.  Something 
> is wrong here.
> 
> I think we should say something like "rdf:XMLLiteral denotes 
> a datatype".

Hmmm.... I thought we did say that. If we don't we definitely
need to fix that before last call.
> >>It probably makes more sense to say that a datatype is a four-tuple,
> >>consisting of a URI reference, a lexical space, a value space, and a
> >>lexical-to-value mapping.
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understand this, but the final suggestion seems 
> reasonable to me.

Please see my comments for why I don't consider this reasonable.

Patrick

Received on Friday, 17 January 2003 09:23:43 UTC